“I have nothing to hide and I don’t mind if the government is monitoring my communication” is a line often rolled out by users who are worried about terrorism and therefore willingly accept government surveillance programs. Seeing the terrible terror attacks in Belgium and around...

I’ve met experienced IoT developers, business analysts, business and project leaders in the last few weeks. We discussed Streembit, our open source, decentralized, peer-to-peer IoT application. Understandably, the first question was: why should anyone switch to a completely new topology from the well tested client-server...

The enormous power of the September 2016 cyber attacks paralyzed the Internet along the US East Coast. The attack created problems for Internet users and afflicted an array of sites including Twitter, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit, Spotify and Netflix. It was an extremely large and unusually...